'Uptalk'is commonly used to refer to rising intonation at the end of declarative sentences, or
(to put it more simply) the tendency for people to make statements that sound like questions …

This chapter surveys phonological variation in English from a wide range of perspectives. I
draw on the methods and findings of several academic traditions, especially phonetics …

Conversation is supported by the beliefs that people have in common and the perceptual
experience that they share. The visual context of a conversation has two aspects: the …

Quotative be like is a rapid global innovation, yet no evidence pinpoints when it arose, under
what circumstances, or the consequences of its emergence. Using a data set spanning four …

In this paper, I examine the different conversational and interactional functions that High
Rising Terminals (HRT) fulfil among young, White, middle‐class speakers of London …

While rising terminal pitch on declarative syntax (“uptalk”) has received a fair amount of
attention in scholarly and popular media, relatively little work has focused specifically on …

Entrepreneurs aim to introduce innovations into the market, eg, in the form of new products
or services. However, innovations always mean changes, and people tend to react …

This thesis examines language variation and change in a context of minority language
revitalisation. In particular, I concentrate on young fluent speakers of Scottish Gaelic, a …

Uptalk is the semantically bleached use of a rising intonation pattern over a declarative
sentence. Uptalk runs counter to the cross-linguistic generalization that rising contours …

A corpus is described consisting of non-scripted monologues and dialogues, recorded by 27
speakers, comprising a total of 73,227 running words, corresponding to 9h and 46min of …